What We Believe

Recognizing that the Bible is the very Word of the Living God to man, and understanding the priority of knowing and obeying its truths, the elders of Grace Bible Church are deeply committed to studying and teaching Scripture with diligence and authority. Thus, the central ministry of our church is the continuous imparting of biblical truth to the people of God that they may better know, live, and defend the Truth and serve Him in worship, ministry, and evangelism.

WE BELIEVE the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original writings, consisting of Old and New Testaments, complete in the revelation of God's will, and the divine and final authority for all Christian faith and conduct.

WE BELIEVE in one God, eternally existing in three persons - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We believe that all members of the triune Godhead are co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and are worthy of the same worship, confidence, and obedience.

WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. We believe in His sinless life, substitutionary death upon the cross for our sins, His burial, ressurrection, ascension into heaven, His future return "in the air" for His bride, the universal Body of born-again believers, and that He will one day physically return to earth in power and great glory to establish His long-awaited Millennial Kingdom.

WE BELIEVE that the primary ministry of the Holy Spirit is to bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ, and, during this age of grace, to convict men of sin, regenerate the believing sinner, indwell, guide, seal, instruct, bestow spiritual gifts for service, and empower the believer for Godly living and service. We also believe that the "sign gifts" were given to the early church to confirm the message of the Apostles, and that the sign gifts gradually ceased with the completion of the New Testament Scriptures.

WE BELIEVE that all men are sinners by nature and by choice, and are therefore under condemnation. Those who truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and will rejoice forever in God's presence. We further believe that those who have not received the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior will be forever separated from God in a literal hell prepared for Satan and his fallen angels.

WE BELIEVE in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Jesus Christ is head and all born-again believers are members. We believe in the local church consisting of born-again believers associated for the purpose of exalting the Lord Jesus Christ, edifying one another, expounding the entire Word of God, equipping the saints, evangelizing the lost, and extending the Gospel into all the world.

WE BELIEVE that born-again believers express their love for the Lord through obedience to His Word, presenting their bodies as living sacrifices unto the Lord, and through loving one another as He commanded. We further believe that the highest call of man upon earth is to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and to worship Him in "spirit and in truth."